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Friday, May 18, 2012

Bloggers' Quilt Festival!

My entry for this Bloggers’ Quilt Festival is a quilt titled
“ SHATTERED.”The story behind this
quilt goes a little something like this …

A few months back my friend and I were going thru his late
grandmother’s quilting stash that he had inherited.Knowing I was a quilter, he asked me to take
a look at it and wanted to know if I could make something from the things
leftover in the buckets of fabric he had gotten.We stumbled upon these hand-sewn paper pieced
(with newspaper) half square triangle pieces (the big block pieces in the
center).How could we not resist making
something with these pieces - there was such cool vintage fabrics in every
triangle and what a unique way of using your stash!We placed the triangles out on the bed,
playing around with several layouts and finally came to the conclusion to sew
them together to make squares looked best, but then it needed more.My friend is an artist and he knew that black
would really set off the colors, so I knew a black border was a must to really
make those squares pop, but it still needed MORE!Then, I had remembered recently reading about
a fellow blogger’s postage stamp quilt and thought that might be an option for
some borders.Using postage size pieces
all around the inner pieces and building a 5 inch postage stamp outer drop
border turned out to be a great way to use lots and lots of fabric from his
grandmother’s stash and really let all the colors play! It turns out there are
over 3000 postage stamp sized pieces in this quilt!!!(I have to give a BIG THANK YOU to my mother
for helping me cut all those little buggers! If she didn’t help me with that
part, I’d still be working on this top!) This quilt measures 105x105 inches and
is soon going to the long arm quilters to be beautifully stitched.I just love how the layout of the angles play
tricks on your eyes and makes it look like shattered glass.

I’d like to thank Amy for once again for hosting the AWESOME
Bloggers’ Quilt Festival!I look forward
to it and enjoy it every time! I love looking at everyone’s hard work and
talents!

Thanks for stopping by and visiting.Please feel free to leave a comment so I know
you were here!

Hi, my name is Suz. I've just been looking around your blog at all of your beautiful quilts. Then I realized, you're in the same part of the country as me!! I live about an hour or so south of St. Louis on 55. We're practically neighbors!!

Great story behind this awesome quilt. It does remind me of shattered glass. I really love the way you used the black around each square. And it way a great idea to use postage stamp squares. You must be proud.